The ENTER_ team is hosting an event at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge tonight, March 29th. Get a (Second) Life is a hands-on introduction to blogging, photosharing, social networks and virtual worlds, run by ENTER_ with help from Bedford Creative Arts, Long Road Sixth Form College and Anglia Ruskin University.

Sunday, 25 March 2007

One of the highlights of the ENTER_ festival will be the Local Food picnic/performance, taking place on Parkers' Piece, Cambridge on the afternoon of April 29th. Echoing the Coronation Feast of 1838 this will be a live cooking performance with food and recipes contributed by those attending, an electronic potluck. More details on the Local/Food website, where the call for recipes is now open.

Saturday, 24 March 2007

Enter_Unknown Territories - The Conference will start on Wed 25 April in the evening at The Junction in Cambridge and take place at Downing College on Thu 26 and Fri 27 April. The central hub of the festival, the domesite on Parkers Piece is just across the road.

Adventuring Out the Challenges of Knowledge Exchange (chair: BronacFerran, London)

Future Space (chair: John Naughton, Cambridge)

Toolshift/Mindshift (chair: Rob van Kranenburg, Ghent)

Open Technology (chair: Sally Jane Norman, Newcastle on Tyne)

Control Technology (chair: Bill Thompson, Cambridge)

There will also be the launch of Uncommon Ground co-commissioned by Virtueel Platform & Utrecht School of Arts with support of Arts Council England's Artists' Insights strand, as well as the Proboscis public authoring zone, Crumb's bliss-out centre, workshops, presentations and public art events.

This is the blog for the ENTER_UNKNOWN TERRITORIES conference and festival, taking place in Cambridge, England from April 25-29 2007. It's will provide an opportunity to meet, share and discuss how we build and sustain collaborative creative practices in new technology, arts, education and commerce. So what are we doing on a free blog service instead of running our own state of the art server?

We're here because we can be. Because Blogger, like Typepad and Wordpress and other blogging tools, are free, easy, available and powerful. Because you no longer need to spend large amounts of money and lots of technical effort making an online presence - the net today allows anyone with access (and we recognise that this is a small proportion of the world's population) a simple way to speak and reach others.

So we'll be leveraging Blogger and Flickr and YouTube and Jumpcut. We'll be on MySpace and Facebook and bebo and Orkut. ENTER_ will be everywhere - and it will cost very little. The cost, of course, is in time and imagination. Being here is cheap. Being effective here is hard work.

ENTER_UNKNOWN TERRITORIES will take place in Cambridge, England from 25-29 April 2007.

ENTER_UNKNOWN

Art and new technology practice challenges the borders between creative disciplines, contemporary culture and commerce, questioning the relationship between producer and consumer. As these boundaries are dissolved and reformed, new kinds of spaces are emerging in which creativity and experience can exist. Enter_Unknown Territories provides an opportunity to explore these new spaces and investigate their potential for collaboration between artists, businesses and academics.